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yonmei: When you see this in a friend's journal, quote Shakespeare!
Glittering in golden coats, like images [H IV, pt 1, Act IV, scene i, l. 110]That's one line. There's another from MND. And, of all of WS's plays, that's all I've kept close to me (the poems are different: I read the sonnets almost daily). For 10 years of compulsory study, it's not much. But then I always felt that Tennyson could be encapsulated in the one phrase "far as the wild swan wings" [The Palace of Art, l. 31].
Brevity's great, innit.